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February 3, 2025

10 Practical Executive Function Activities for Students: A Guide for Parents and Tutors

What are some of the main categories of executive functioning? Good kids may often say “I forgot” and genuinely not know how to stop forgetting to do homework assignments or turn in their work on time unless parents and tutors use executive function activities for students to help train their brains to focus and manage […]

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January 28, 2025

Building Blocks for Success: How Executive Function Skills Support Learning and Life

What are some of the main components of executive function skills? Success in learning, living, and leading starts with strong executive function skills, and without this building block, many students struggle academically, personally, and socially. Executive function skills help us stay organized, manage our time, control our emotions, and make good decisions. These skills are

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January 14, 2025

4 Classroom Organization Tips

Need to tackle some clutter in the classroom or office? Keeping up with classroom organization is part of classroom management. Often we ignore a cluttered space because we do not feel we have time or energy to tackle a whole project. Part of my master strategy in Clean the Chaos: At Home involves sweeping out

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January 7, 2025

4 Classroom Management Tips

How consistent are you in your classroom management? Classroom management is hard to learn from a textbook, even if you have read Harry Wong’s First Days of School. Until you are actually in a classroom, it is hard to know exactly how you will respond and react to certain situations no matter how prepared you

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September 5, 2023

10 tips for using Google Tasks and Google Calendar as a student agenda

How can you effectively use Google Calendar as a student agenda? Feeling overwhelmed with assignments, sports, and deadlines? Google Calendar and Google Tasks can double as your student agenda, helping you stay on top of everything without the stress. Here’s how. Time management is a life skill that is important to teach students, and I

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April 11, 2023

Thoughtful Teacher Gifts

What do you consider a thoughtful teacher gift? I really do not want another teacher mug, hand lotion, or note pad, but I would love to hear you say “thank you” in your own way. Some of the best teacher gifts I have received have not been costly ones, but thoughtful ones. One mom hand

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January 3, 2021

In Order

Do you ever wonder why students jump around project to project without finishing it in order? Teaching students or your children to prioritize and complete projects in order is a doable goal. One easy way is to write a list of things to complete and teach them to complete projects in order. In the elementary

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December 30, 2020

Be Honest

Do you know that honest feeling of relief you get when you just tell someone the truth? “Be honest” is one of the few rules I have for my tutoring clients. I’d rather a child tell me they didn’t turn in their homework than lie to me about the teacher losing it. Being honest allows

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